Archive for May 2011

The Drill Down 186 – On the Bubble?

This week, The Drill Down crew discuss TechCrunch Disrupt, a tragic explosion at iPad assembler Foxconn, rumors of the next iPhone, why Microsoft would buy Nokia, Facebook partners with Spotify, Sony suffers additional hack attacks, Twitter buys Tweetdeck, digital music download price wars, an update to Windows Phone 7, Hurt Locker sues a record number [...]

The Round Up 092 – Blondie and Captain America

Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up – a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down. It’s episode 92, and we’re finally back [...]

The Drill Down 185 – And we would have gotten away with it too…

This week Tom, Devindra and Andy discuss the return of the Playstation Network, a revolutionary (and incendiary) digital currency, iPhone 5 predictions, and Apple’s stores get a facelift. Later, they discuss a smear campaign against Google secretly instigated by…Facebook, and Netflix’s emergence as a major content provider.

Will Apple’s New Pulse Improve Its Customer Service?

The following is a guest post. If you’d like to contribute your own point of view on technology, social media or geek culture,  feel free to send your submission to submissions@thedrilldown.com Apple has always prided themselves in being interested in customers’ opinions of their products and in valuing the feedback they get. Although Apple has [...]

The Drill Down 184 – Sky.net

This week, we’re proud to add Devindra Hardawar (reporter for VentureBeat and co-host of the Symbiotek & Slashfilmcast podcasts) as part of our regular roundtable of co-hosts (welcome, Devindra!). We discuss the new “add to Tumblr” button for publishers, using speech to recharge cellphones, inside Apple with Steve Jobs, infighting amongst Anonymous factions, the Biggest [...]